ENV 796b / 2021-2022

Bio-Politics of Human-Animal Relations

Note: this course information is for the 2021-2022 academic year, not the current academic year (2020-2021).

Credits: 3

Spring 2022: Time and location TBA

Advanced seminar on the “post-humanist” turn toward multispecies ethnography. Section I, introduction to the course; and “sacred cows.” Section II, theory and practice of multispecies ethnography; the question of human consciousness; and the tradition of natural history studies. Section III, current work on human-animal relations: wildlife conflict; biopower/biopolitics; hunting and mimesis; colonial/postcolonial politics. Section IV, presentations by the students and teaching fellow. One other class is devoted to student selections of influential current literature; and there are two guest lectures by prominent scholars in the field.
Enrollment capped